CVE-2015-8985

Name	CVE-2015-8985
Description	The pop_fail_stack function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via vectors related to extended regular expression processing.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	779392

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
glibc (PTS)	buster	2.28-10+deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	2.28-10+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye	2.31-13+deb11u5	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.36-8	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
glibc	source	(unstable)	2.28-1	unimportant		779392

Notes

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21163
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=eb04c21373e2a2885f3d52ff192b0499afe3c672 (2.28)
DoS via crafted regexps are not considered security issues by glibc upstream